Introduction * Stephen Zhang‚ a project manager for Noble Consulting‚ of Beijing‚ China‚ is in the last month of a major three-month project with tight time lines and important economic implications for Noble. * Late one Friday afternoon‚ Zhang receives a phone call from Shen Rui‚ a former colleague who had left Noble suddenly about six months earlier after a disagreement with Noble’s founding partner. * Shen Rui offers Zhang a job with a substantial increase in his salary and position
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Week 1: Introduction - Class Discussion Discussion The purpose of this discussion board is to provide you with a forum to discuss your newly discovered production and operations management concepts in light of current issues and real world situations with others in the class. In essence‚ it is a practice ground for ensuring that your reasoning and foundation of these concepts are secure. This portion of the course requires you to interact with your fellow classmates. After completing the textbook
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The passage I selected‚ 1 Samuel 1:28‚ tells the story of the birth of Samuel and begins with a story about Samuel’s mother‚ Hannah‚ who prays for a child during the family’s annual pilgrimage to worship at Shiloh. Eli‚ the priest at Shiloh‚ hears her prayer and tells Hannah that her prayer will be answered. Hannah promises the Lord that if she is granted a child‚ she will return him to the Lord and his life will be dedicated to the Lord’s work. The birth of Samuel was the first
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Computer science department Data security – Lab # 1 Lab Description Set-UID is an important security mechanism in Unix operating systems. When a Set-UID program is run‚ it assumes the owner’s privileges. For example‚ if the program’s owner is root‚ then when anyone runs this program‚ the program gains the root’s privileges during its execution. Set-UID allows us to do many interesting things‚ but unfortunately‚ it is also the culprit of many bad things. Therefore‚ the objective of this lab is
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1. Why would the owners of Lakeside as well as the company’s banks require that an independent CPA firm perform the annual audit? The reason that there needs to be an independent auditor is so that they can remain unbiased. It could potentially make them less independent if they are auditing both Lakeside and the bank in which Lakeside is taking loans from. The auditing firm needs to stay independent in mind and appearance and this may be an issue when auditing both. 2. This case implies that
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having a kind of monopoly on telephone equipment business until the Carterfone ruling went into effect in 1980. AT&T was charged with monopolizing the market for telephone equipment and long-distance services. Following a divestiture in January 1‚ 1984‚ AT&T was divided into two major sectors - AT&T Communications and AT&T Technologies. AT&T Consumer Products belonged to AT&T Technologies. AT&T Consumer Products (CP) had never designed its telephones to be marketable
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References: 1. Dr Muhammad Yusuf Saleem (2013)‚ “Islamic commercial law”‚ John Wiley & sons Singapore Pte.Ltd‚ pp 3-4 2 3. HishamYaacob& Nor Khadijah Donglah(2012)‚ “Shari’ah Audit in Islamic Financial Institutions: The Postgraduates”‚ International Journal of Economics
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EST1 – Overview of Task Instructions I. Task 1 - Social responsibility of Company Q a. Part A - Evaluate Company Q’s current attitude toward social responsibility. i. Are Q’s actions (as described in the given statement) socially responsible? Why or why not? ii. Why is it important for Q to be socially responsible? b. Part B - Recommend three actions that Company Q could take to improve the company’s attitude toward
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1 Risk Chapter and Its Management Multiple Choice 1. The major types of business risk include all of the following except: A price risk B diversification risk C pure risk D credit risk Answer: b Type: K 2. Credit risk is a. : the risk that a firms borrowers will not make promised payments. b. the risk that a firm will not be able to get credit from lenders c. the risk that a firm will not have sufficient funds to make payments to their creditors d. the risk due to changes in
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Mystery shopper report For my report I chose the shop Pier 1 Imports‚ I have never heard about this shop before which shows that they have weak marketing strategy. So the reason of having gone to the Pier 1 Imports was actually a gift card presented to my parents. I would like to emphasize here that the gift card is a reason to make a purchase even if you don’t have intentions to buy anything. Another very interesting characteristic of the gift card‚ which not many people are aware of‚ is
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